LAKE FISHING RIGHTS
ANGLERS IN COURT DECISION RESERVED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. The case involving the right of Europeans to fish for trout in Lake Roto Aira in the Taupo district, was concluded in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. . , , The defendants, against whom charges of breaches of the trout fishing regulations were brought by the Department of Internal Affairs, were H E Barrowclough, Auckland, solicitor-’ W W. Dove, Auckland, merchant- W. H. Cocker, Auckland, solicitor;’j. R- Gray, Auckland, solicitor; E A Harding, Dargaville, farmer; B. McLeod, Colyton, Fetlding, farmer; J. R. Morris, Auckland, headmaster; ana C. A. Whitney, Auckland, merchant. The department contended that the sole rights of fishing in Lake Roto Aira had been reserved to one tribe of Maoris, and the defendants were charged with fishing in the lake. After lengthy legal argument, the decision was reserved.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 11
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